[Framers] Applying Show/Hide Conditional Settings

[Lynne A. Price]

John,
    FM should not crash when you apply Show/Hide settings. Please give 
us an update and let us know if you experience crashes now that you've 
switched to using conditional expressions. When you were using the 
Show/Hide shuttle boxes, did FM always crash when processing the same 
file? Did restarting FM or rebooting your computer make a difference?
    To answer your original question, yes, once you have selected the 
files in a book window, you can make Show/Hide settings in the selected 
files either using the Show/Hide Conditional Text box, or by importing 
formats from a template and checking the Conditional Text Settings box. 
Assuming that all the documents already have the same conditional text 
definitions, the two methods should produce identical results. In that 
since, they are both "right". However, the first method seems more 
obvious to me and more in the spirit of conditional text. The condition 
tags have to be defined before they can be shown or hidden. The intent 
of this FM feature is to be able to show or hide different content 
without having to redefine the conditions. It was creative of you to see 
if the second method made a difference in observed behavior, but it 
shouldn't be necessary.
     --Lynne

On 1/14/2020 1:36 PM, John Posada wrote:
> I've been experiencing crashes when applying a Show per condition.
>
> I've applied conditions two different ways...
>
> - Select all the files in the book, configure Show/Hide , pick the
> condition, move to Show side, click radio button for Show as per Condition,
> then Apply.
> - In the template file, configure Show/Hide, Apply, then
> File->Import->Conditions.
>
> Is one of these the RIGHT way and one the WRONG way, or is there a more
> stable way?


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Lynne A. Price
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